Open Daily · 11 AM – 10 PM 11008 SE 66th Terrace, Belleview, FL 352·877·1017

— Belleview · Florida  ·  Est. 2026 —

Monti Primo

R · I · S · T · O · R · A · N · T · E

Family Restaurant

Authentic Italian, served family style. Made from scratch in our open kitchen — a recipe our family has been perfecting since 2011.

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Mike and Suzana toasting at the family restaurant
Mike & Suzana.
Hand-rolling fresh pasta in the family kitchen
Made by hand.
Steaming baked pasta in creamy white sauce, fresh from the oven
Fresh from the oven.
Chef Mondi in the dining room at Monti Primo
Chef Mondi.

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Chef and owner Mondi Markeci inside Monti Primo Ristorante Chef & Owner — Mondi Markeci

— Our Story —

A family at the table, for three generations.

Monti Primo is the next chapter in a story Mike, Suzana, and their son Mondi Markeci have been writing since 2011 — when the family opened Naples Italian Restaurant in Leesburg. Eleven years and countless plates of pasta later, they sold the place and went looking for the next one. They found it in Belleview.

The name is a small inside joke. Monti takes after Mondi — and means mountain in Italian. Primo means prime. Put together: Prime Mountain. A high bar, set by family.

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I want to give a good value food for a good price.

— Chef Mondi Markeci

Every sauce is housemade. Every pasta is brought to the table because someone in this kitchen still remembers the way nonna did it. We seat about 150 inside, with a 50-person room for the parties you don’t want to host at home, a bar that pours full liquor, and a patio for the nights the Florida air feels like Tuscany.

— Mike & Suzana  ·  2011 – 2022 —

Before Monti Primo, there was Naples.

Mike and Suzana making fresh pasta in the kitchen
The kitchen, before service.
Mike and Suzana cooking in the packed dining room of Naples Italian
Naples Italian, Leesburg — a Friday night.
Mike and Suzana plating pasta together
Two hands. One pan. Forty years.

In 2011, Mike and Suzana Markeci opened Naples Italian Restaurant in Leesburg. They ran it the way they knew how — with their hands in the flour, their family in the dining room, and a kitchen built on recipes carried over from the old country.

Eleven years of long lunches and longer dinners. Sauces that started before sunrise and finished after the last table left. A son who grew up between the booths and learned to fold a calzone before he could drive.

In 2022 they sold Naples Italian and went looking for the next chapter. They found it in Belleview. And they did what they’ve always done — brought their family into the kitchen.

The pasta you eat tonight at Monti Primo was first rolled out on a table just like these.

— Specialità della Casa —

Three plates we’re known for.

Pasta Pesce Pollo — baked pasta with shrimp, chicken, and alfredo
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Pasta Pesce Pollo

Pasta · Pesce · Pollo

Baked pasta layered with shrimp, tender chicken, and a slow-built alfredo. The dish our regulars send strangers in to try.

Ziti Binopoli — baked ziti with chicken and asparagus
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Ziti Binopoli

Una Specialità della Casa

Baked ziti with chicken and asparagus, finished in a marriage of alfredo and marinara. Quiet on the menu, loud at the table.

Ziti de Napoli — slow-cooked baked ziti with house sauce
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Ziti de Napoli

Made from scratch · ognigiorno

The dish we carried up the road from Leesburg. Hand-cut sauce, slow oven, and the same recipe we’ve been making since the first Naples Italian opened in 2011.

Brown tufted booths and marble tables in the dining room
Main dining room with brown booths and modern lighting
Full bar with marble counter and lounge seating

— Inside —

An open kitchen.
A tie on every server.
A room that feels like home.

We chose Belleview because it deserved a room that takes itself seriously without taking itself too seriously. The booths are deep brown leather. The tables are marble. The kitchen is open, so you can watch the pizzas slide into the oven while you wait.

Bring the whole family. Bring the whole soccer team. We have room.

150Dining Seats
50Event Room
13Bar Seats
16Patio Seats

— Events & Catering —

Host it with us.

Rehearsal dinners. Birthdays. Office lunches. Holiday parties. Our 50-person event room sits ready, and our kitchen caters anywhere in the area.

Catering & Events → Call 352·877·1017

— Trovaci —

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Address

11008 SE 66th Terrace
Belleview, FL 34420

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Hours

Monday11 AM – 10 PM
Tuesday11 AM – 10 PM
Wednesday11 AM – 10 PM
Thursday11 AM – 10 PM
Friday11 AM – 10 PM
Saturday11 AM – 10 PM
Sunday11 AM – 10 PM

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The grandfather of the Markeci family, where the story began
My grandfather.
A young Mondi Markeci with his father in the family restaurant

— Our Story —

Three generations, one table.

Before there was Monti Primo, there was a grandfather who cooked for others as a military chef — and passed down a simple belief: every meal made with pride, every guest treated with care.

From New York, to Oviedo, to eleven years at Naples Italian in Leesburg, that belief became our family. Today, it lives here in Belleview.

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